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OMG, cutest picture ever! Love her perfect pigtails!
My school tragically used dayglo backgrounds in my seventh grade year. All of the bad acne cover-up and unfortunate 90s fashions colors were magnified by the tennis ball yellow and electric blue backdrops. All of the girls looked a terrible shade of orange, not unlike tan in a can. The effect induced quite a few tears on reveal day.
OMG this is so funny!
By the way, come on down to Toledo and get a climpse of our 2 current Ghost Malls, Northtowne and Southwyck. I think Southwyck my be heading to a wrecking ball demise real soon.
Sadly, we did not have the laser option. Perhaps Vermont was too rural for laser beams? One year, I did have one of those double image photos where in the background is a "haunting" profile photo within the main photograph. I've always found those mildly disturbing and would have much preferred the laser option.
Huh. Maybe I'm too old or maybe my town was too small, but lasers were never an option. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
But I do know that I love Juniper's laser pics. Fabulous!
I always wanted the laser beams too! And I still have my old elementary yearbooks so I can go back and look at whose parents sprung for it. Of course it's the kids that ended up being really popular in high school. Apparently they were onto something with those laser beams. Also, I was never allowed to order books from the monthly Scholastic flyers. "That's what the library is for." My kids are getting as many damn books as they can carry!
Laser beams make everything better! Or should I say, "Lazer" because that zounds zo much cooler?? Now where did my Hammer Pants run off to?
I want to be in an intergalactic space pirate mutiny so bad now! And yet I somehow know I won't ever get the chance. Thanks a lot for introducing me to a new well of sadness in life.
(Your daughter is beyond adorable, but I don't like leaving mushy comments.)
I miss the double exposure, black background, floating shadowy profile ones. They were so... spiritual? Inspired?
The pink jacket makes the composition. Brings out those pink lasers.
They always made me think Hans Solo & Chewbaca were handing out off-frame with their light sabers.
& what about the ala-J. Geils Band- Freeze Frame paint splatter background?
You could always go with this classy classic!
OK. It was supposed to link to this picture!
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OMG. LASERS! Hilarious! Sadly, my school was never hip enough to use such backdrops. The high school did require, however, that senior girls wear off-the-shoulder red feathered shawls. And, oh yes, clutching a scrolled diploma.
"Hello sailor, I just graduated from a brothel. Wanna come up and see me sometime?"
Laser beam background? There was a LASER BEAM BACKGROUND? I never heard of such a think!
I think you should volunteer to be class photographer this year. Think of the possibilities!
Aw man! We never even had the option of lazer backgrounds at my elementary school. I had no idea what I was missing!
Also, those pictures are both super-cute.
Lasers are awesome!! My brother and I both got them a couple years. They were the pinnacle of 90s elementary school fashion.
I went on a forty minute rant about the scam that is kids professional photography with my dear one when we got the same, though Southern hemispheric, version of that brochure. A rant that, as most of them are, was largely ignored. (Why can't I live in that Victorian family structure in which I have absolute power?)
I'm pretty sure that she and her mother surreptitiously sent the form backi in requesting the whole photographic gamut.
Damn! Laser beam school photography backgrounds in Kzo? I SO missed out on all that back in the '50's and '60's.
As did our kids in the '80's, down here in Houston.
Never heard of such a thing - laser backgrounds?
But get this: Our eldest daughter now IS a school photographer! (It has cured her of ever wanting to have children, by the way.) And I've painted more than one of those muslin backgrounds myself. How kewl AM I, eh?
Seriously -- she's a talented photographer and can coax the most amazing pictures out of those little darlings every day. Day after day after day. It's not an easy job. She shoots 400+ mugs a day.
Junie got a good photog last year. Can't wait to see the "more natural" picture this year. Please post.
I can't believe they still have those cheesy rainbow backgrounds. Holy crow.
She's adorable.
I don't think the lazer option was available until the late 80s.
your readers are OLD.
Yeah, I am feeling really old - no laser option when I was a kid. My three year old's school pictures from this year are pretty good - we just got the proofs back yesterday.
However, last year's (from a different preschool) featured a wagon wheel to rest her hand on and a fake prarie scene for the background ... odd choices for a school photo.
I don't remember laser beam backgrounds. Maybe, 25 years later, eastern Kentucky is just now getting laser beam background technology. (I know the hairstyles there haven't changed much, so little Shania and her majestically feathered hair will feel right at home.)
Forget lasers - where's the graffiti option?
Um, LASER BEAM BACKGROUNDS?! Those are fantastic. I can't believe we didn't have that option in 1987 in Podunk, Indiana. I feel cheated.
While the Juniper photos are great, the link to "We've Got Lasers" is a total keeper.
This really struck my funny bone. I always wanted the laser beam background and totally felt ripped off every year my parents wouldn't pay the extra money for it. Now I'm glad they were so cheap...
No laser beam option at my son's school--but (heaven help me) I let him choose the background color. Last year: an intense Kelly-green. This year: purple (!) Yikes. I always wanted the fancy backgrounds when I was a kid: trees, etc. Mom never gave in--always the staid grey. Juniper's shot was sweet: my son usually looks as if he's a deer caught in headlights. Or as if he's passing a stone.
It must have been national picture day, for Iris had hers taken on Monday, too. I was looking for the dixie flag background and was pleased to have not found it..
Ghost malls...lol .Lazer beam backgrounds haven't seen those in 20 years if that.My kids only get offered plain simple colored backgrounds in the fall,then they try to get you to "buy more"in the spring when pulling kids out of class with the"fancy better done"scenic background for another bazillion or so out of your wallet. This year they tried something "new"posing the kids with two certain poses but LOL letting the parents chose how close they wanted the photo cropped before hand. As a former Sears,JCP and you name it I worked there photographer,this really irks me that nothing is saved for the "senior"pictures later on.
I will not give you the it is hard to work with kids everyday and get perfect smile lecture(because it is,but that is why I loved it)entertainment at its best when you get the great smiles that photographer did from your child.Love you daughter's photos she looks like she had fun doing the Princess Leia pigtail/lazer beam photo LOL. (sorry that is what it reminded me of when I saw the lazer beams ponytails...no offense to her or you)great blog...I will have to come back and read some more now that I have found your blog!
Sincerely a new fan
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